Antonio Donato is an Associate professor of Medieval and Renaissance philosophy at Queens College, CUNY. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Padua and his PhD at the University of Oxford. Professor Donato held several visiting positions at various universities in the United States, including UC Riverside and UCLA. In 2014, he was awarded the New Directions fellowship by the Mellon Foundation; in 2019, he was a research fellow at the Netherland Institute of Advanced Studies. His research focuses on two main areas: Boethius and Renaissance utopianism. In his research, professor Donato aims to show how past thinkers are best understood when examined in light of the cultural, historical, and social context in which they lived. He is the author of Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” as a Product of Late Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Italian Renaissance Utopias (Palgrave, 2019).